Hystrix - Defend you app: "Hystrix evolved out of resilience engineering work that the Netflix API team began in 2011...In a distributed environment, failure of any given service is inevitable. Hystrix is a library designed to control the interactions between these distributed services providing greater latency and fault tolerance."

Announcing Reduced Pricing for Windows Azure Storage: "Today we are happy to announce another price reduction for Windows Azure Storage by as much as 28%, effective on December 12th. This follows our March 8th 2012 reduction of 12% furthering our commitment to best overall value in the industry."